In the early days of YouTube, it was filled with mostly useless videos of cats and music videos. YouTube now is a great resource for finding video clips related to almost anything you want. You can fix your sink using an instructional video found on YouTube, something I have done, or you can just find…
We are now living and learning in the digital age and there is something lacking in a lot of educational settings. We use digital resources, we post online, we have students traversing the highways of the internet and yet we do not address the ways in which we should behave when online and how this…
With Google Classroom being fully rolled out and being used in multiple classes here at AHS, it is important for students to know the basics of how to use Classroom. Classroom is very easy to use and takes very little time to learn. The following video should help students get started and help teachers see…
With the recent release of Google Classroom to all GAFE schools, there were a few updates. While I did create an update video, I thought I would also just redo my Creating Assignments tutorial. Watch the video below to see how to create assignments in the new Google Classroom.
Over the summer one of my goals was to find a better way to share curated resources with others. I enjoy finding articles and other resources that I know can be helpful to teachers that I work with and making sure they have an easy way to access them. I have tried using various tools…
Google Classroom is starting to be rolled out to schools around the world and there are even a couple of updates from the preview that some had access to over the summer. You can see my previous postings for Google Classroom here. There are 2 big changes, one is an About section and the…
You can easily export a class roster that includes the email addresses for your students from Infinite Campus. You can then use those email addresses in various apps like Doctopus or to create a Google Group to send out class emails so you only have to type in one email instead of all of the…
With new computers and a new school year there are two things you can do quickly to save yourself some hassle and some time. The first is to download Google Drive to your computer so that you can quickly backup your files and have them on your computer as well as in your Drive. This…
Google has released an update to their Drive app and everyone is able to make the change now before it is made for you. The only issue is that it did not work great on my school account but it worked perfectly on my personal account. There are some added features that some will really…
As our new school laptops do not have Microsoft Office installed, many people are going to have to learn how to use tools that are readily available to do what they were doing before. We have LibreOffice installed on the computers and of course we have access to Google Drive. Both of these allow us…
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